A group of women riding snowmobiles across Saskatchewan stopped in Moose Jaw.

Prairie Women On Snowmobiles’ 13th annual eight-day mission ride to raise money for breast cancer research began on Feb. 1. For the first time, the mission ride came to Moose Jaw on Monday night with a private supper sponsored by Beta Sigma Phi at W.J. Jones and Son Family Resource Centre.

“Things are going very, very well. We’re very pleased with the support from all of the communities, especially Moose Jaw for putting on a function and having the awareness brought out here,” said Carol McKnight, president of the club. “We try and plan the route where the riders are from and then just trying to get from A to B to fill in some of the spaces and we decided to break into some new territory this year and come down as far as Moose Jaw.”

She said today they were heading to Rosetown, another new area for the mission. She said there are no riders involved from the Moose Jaw area, but there have been riders in the past from Regina, Saskatoon and Regina Beach where the club first began in 2000.

“The most gratifying is, I think, seeing the survivors come forth and knowing that you possibly had a part in their survival by bringing out the awareness of how important early detection really is,” said McKnight. “(We’re) hoping that one day we’ll all be survivors and there will be no one passing away from the dreaded disease.”